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18/08/2025

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS

Are you a returnee or a disadvantaged youth ready to start or grow a business? Apply now for the Economic Inclusion and Empowerment Programme, led by NEDI in partnership with GYIN Gambia and partners.

Who Can Apply:

Returnees (Germany, EU, Africa)
Disadvantaged groups: PWDs, IDPs, single parents, school dropouts
🌸 Women strongly encouraged!

📋 Criteria:
✅ Viable business idea
✅ Motivation & commitment
✅ Socioeconomic vulnerability

Forms available via Google Forms & at NEDI, GYIN Gambia & partner offices nationwide.
Apply here: [https://ee.kobotoolbox.org/x/rz0rs98N]

🗓 Deadline:31st August 2025
📞 NEDI: 3644830/4191402 | GYIN: 7834990/3938929
📧 [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]) | [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected])

15/08/2025

Opportunity Alert: Join the Andandorr Programme

Do you have a business idea or are you running a business in tourism, the creative industries, agriculture, or green/smart entrepreneurship?

This is your chance to access incubation, acceleration, financing, market opportunities and tailored support to grow and scale your business.

Apply online: http://bit.ly/4lvkmOp

Deadline: 7 September 2025

Alternatively, you can pick up an application form at:

International Trade Centre Gambia, Bakau

National Youth Council, Kanifing or their regional offices

GIEPA, Kairaba Avenue or Farafenni

Funded by the European Union in The Gambia under the European Union Youth Empowerment Project – Tourism and Creative Industries and implemented by the International Trade Centre (ITC) in partnership with Ministry of Tourism, Arts and Culture (MoTAC), Ministry of Trade, Industry, Regional Integration and Employment (MoTIE) and Gambia Investment and Export Promotion Agency (GIEPA).

20/02/2025

CALL FOR EXPRESSION OF INTEREST FOR JOINING A TRAINING OF TRAINERS WORKSHOP AS PART OF THE PERSONAL INITIATIVE (PI) PILOT TRAINING FOR YOUTH IN THE GAMBIA

Introduction and Objective:
The Global Youth Innovation Network Gambia Chapter (GYIN Gambia Chapter) in its new project ‘Personal Initiative for Youth in The Gambia (PI4Y) will train 30 youth in the West Coast of The Gambia. The project is funded and supported by Doorways gGmbH, a non-profit company based in Germany, who is a certified provider for the Personal Initiative (PI) Training. The Personal Initiative (PI) Training is an action-oriented and evidence-based training program that focuses on creating an entrepreneurial mindset and has proven to increase entrepreneurial success.

Part of the activities of this pilot project is to conduct a Training of Trainers workshop prior to the training of beneficiaries. Interested trainer candidates who successfully join this workshop have the chance to be certified as PI trainers by Doorways, act as back-up trainers for this pilot implementation (the probable trainer for the pilot is already predefined), and join the pool of official PI trainers in The Gambia for the further roll-out of the training.

The Training of Trainers will take place from 1st to 4th of April 2025 in the West Coast Region.

If you are available and interested, please click on the link to apply: https://forms.gle/PjbrniH5XdTRx2TP7

For enquiries about the training, you can reach us via email [email protected] or Telephone: +220 7834990/ 5978790/ 2502929
NOTE: Only shortlisted applicants will be contacted

11/10/2024

Rethinking SME Finance and Marketing: Made in The Gambia Shelve available at GYIN Gambia Secretariat for Entrepreneurs at no cost

In a bid to create another marketing avenue for Small and Medium Enterprise (SMEs), the Global Youth Innovation Network (GYIN) Gambia Chapter has mounted a shelve at its secretariat to display Made in The Gambia Products.

The Made in The Gambia Shelve is an income generation for SMEs that are members of the network whereby their products will be displayed and have regular digital market thus boosting their market. This also serves as a long-term business growth and creating more and better sales for the SMEs.

Entrepreneurs registered with GYIN Gambia will now have their Made in The Gambia Products sold in GYIN Gambia Secretariat at no charges/cost and customers will directly pay to the business owners account using online digital payment systems.

For more information:
Mrs. Ida L.B Ceesay, Business Development Officer
Tel: +220 7834990 / 6728939
Email: [email protected]

Ms. Jainaba Njie, Program Officer
Tel: +220 2274966
Email: [email protected]

GYIN Gambia Secretariat
Tel: +220 2502929/ 3546917
Email: [email protected] / [email protected]

23/09/2024

Opportunity Alert!!!

If you’re a Maize Farmer in the following regions: Lower River Region (LRR), North Bank Region (NBR), Central River Region South (CRR South), Central River Region North (CRR North) and Upper River Region (URR), here is an opportunity for you.

Please click on the link to enter your details: https://forms.gle/7wcPpgrGwhKsZ8wT6

Please note, this program does not offer cash or input support.
GYIN Gambia and Commonwealth of Learning (COL) in Canada will work together to develop training materials and train farmers within the Learning, Innovative and Development Platforms (LINDEP).

The Global Youth Innovation Network Gambia Chapter (GYIN Gambia Chapter) and the Commonwealth of Learning (COL) in Canada works to implement the project title- Consolidating the Learning, Innovation, and Development Platforms (LINDEP’s) initiative in Maize Production. This program will profile 3,0...

23/09/2024

GYIN Gambia Embarks on Massive Profiling of 3,000 Maize Farmers in Five Regions of The Gambia

As part of the implementation of a three (3) months maize project (September – November, 2024), GYIN Gambia Chapter today, Monday, 23rd September, 2024 has deployed its profiling team to profile 3,000 maize farmers in The Gambia.

The intervention regions are: Lower River Region (LRR), North Bank Region (NBR), Central River Region South (CRR South), Central River Region North (CRR North) and Upper River Region (URR) respectively.

GYIN Gambia is currently working with the Commonwealth of Learning (COL) in Canada to support 3,000 farmers in the Maize Value Chain in The Gambia.

Read more on: www.gyingambia.gm

14/08/2024

Exciting News!

GYIN Gambia Chapter in its new project 'Trade Facilitation West Africa (TFWA)' is looking for qualified trainers on entrepreneurship who will train 200 Small-Scale Cross Border Traders in The Gambia.

The project, which is funded by the World Bank, is coordinated and implemented by Doorways gGmbH in conjunction with GYIN Gambia Chapter.

As part of its planned activities, the project will conduct a Training of Trainers (ToT) prior to the training of beneficiaries and applications are now open!

Click on the link to apply: https://forms.gle/iuwZkvbc6EFHWNUz8

For enquiries about the training, you can reach us via email [email protected] or Telephone: +220 7834990/ 5978790/ 6728939/ 2502929

NOTE: Only shortlisted applicants will be contacted

05/08/2024

EXCITING TRAINING OPPORTUNITY ALERT!!!

GYIN Gambia Chapter in its new project titled ‘Trade Facilitation West Africa (TFWA) will train about 200 Small-Scale Cross Border Traders in The Gambia’ together with its new partner called Doorways gGmbH, a company based in Germany.

The project is funded by the World Bank. The training will be done in a period of 6 weeks, with two 3-hour sessions for each participant in the week (36 hours total). The trainings will be held in Soma, Lower River Region (LRR) and in Basse, Upper River Region (URR).

NOTE: There is NO CASH GRANT or FUNDING attached to this training!

The objective of the TFWA entrepreneurship training is to enhance 200 Small Scale Cross-Border Traders with the right knowledge and attitude to better trade in the Cross-Border corridors.

Click on the link to apply:
https://forms.gle/YP2vBdo2Rm8zvwXt7 Highlight tagg

Introduction: The Global Youth Innovation Network Gambia Chapter (GYIN Gambia Chapter) in its new project ‘Trade Facilitation West Africa (TFWA) will train Small-Scale Cross Border Traders in the Gambia’ with its new partner called Doorways gGmbH, a company based in Germany. The project is funde...

05/08/2024

EXCITING TRAINING OPPORTUNITY ALERT!!!

GYIN Gambia Chapter in its new project titled ‘Trade Facilitation West Africa (TFWA) will train about 200 Small-Scale Cross Border Traders in The Gambia’ together with its new partner called Doorways gGmbH, a company based in Germany.

The project is funded by the World Bank. The training will be done in a period of 6 weeks, with two 3-hour sessions for each participant in the week (36 hours total). The trainings will be held in Soma, Lower River Region (LRR) and in Basse, Upper River Region (URR).

NOTE: There is NO CASH GRANT or FUNDING attached to this training!

The objective of the TFWA entrepreneurship training is to enhance 200 Small Scale Cross-Border Traders with the right knowledge and attitude to better trade in the Cross-Border corridors.

Click on the link to apply:
https://forms.gle/YP2vBdo2Rm8zvwXt7

Introduction: The Global Youth Innovation Network Gambia Chapter (GYIN Gambia Chapter) in its new project ‘Trade Facilitation West Africa (TFWA) will train Small-Scale Cross Border Traders in the Gambia’ with its new partner called Doorways gGmbH, a company based in Germany. The project is funde...

03/04/2023

Sana Mendy, the project director, said the digital registering farmers who benefit from fertiliser would help avert any potential leakage that could happen in the distribution process.

The tablets, he said, were included as part of the request by the Government of The Gambia to AfDB to help deal with the impact of the Ukraine war. Part of the request was to purchase fertiliser and subsidise farmers.

In a bid to avert leakage in the distribution of fertiliser, the Ministry of Agriculture would now be digitally registering all the farmers who benefit from government fertiliser distribution. To make this digitisation possible, the Rice Value Chain Transformation Project (RVCTP) of the Ministry of....

21/03/2023

In total, 174 participants learned how to use environmentally friendly packaging materials to add value to and market their products, such as herbal teas, cereals, eggs, cashew nuts, or honey.

The Global Youth Innovation Network (GYIN) Gambia Chapter has successfully hosted a training Programme for more than 170 returnees, women, and youth on how to package, label, and market food produc…

13/03/2023

Training on Agricultural Marketing for 30 Rural Women
✅To promote and create market linkages for rural women
✅Build their capacities
✅ Focus on the agricultural value chain
✅ Access to high end markets